Saturday, October 10, 2009

But how will we raise the children?


My wonderful wife and kids gave me the complete season two DVD collection of the TV show, The Big Bang Theory. Tonight we watched this great episode where two physicists dating break up because they disagree about the relative merits of string theory and quantum loop gravity. Here is the relevant clip.
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